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So one of the first things we need to do is make sure that we have hand and eye protection. After that, what we're going to do is we're going to remove our negative battery terminal. Set this aside so there's no way it can make contact with the battery. Now let's get underneath the passenger side of the vehicle. Right along the engine, you're going to see your starter. Remove the two mounting bolts for your starter. Let's go ahead and grab onto that starter. Pull it out of the bell housing area where it's situated.
There we are. Now I'm just gonna use a pry bar. I'm gonna lift up on this tab and just try to get the pigtail off of the sensor. Make sure you have the pigtail clear out of the way. And we're going to spray down the area around that sensor just to help it out, a little bit of penetrant. Now we're just going to use a 10-millimeter socket, and extension, and our ratchet and get that mounting bolt out of there. Hey, it's almost out. Let's finish it up here. Come on. Here we go.
Now let's just take our pry bar, carefully try to put it between the sensor and the engine and just try to pry it out. See if you can get it to wiggle and break free. That just started moving. It feels as though it's getting ready to start pulling right out of the engine. That's very exciting. There it is. Just go ahead and clean up that hole the best you can. Just be careful not to force any of those rust flakes in there. So now we have our new sensor here. I always like to coat the seal with something. You can either use a little bit of engine oil, maybe a little bit of dielectric grease, just something fairly thin just to help lubricate it and help it work its way into that engine block.
Let's get the sensor up in there. When we put this in, you want it to go in as straight as possible. Line up the bolt hole on the actual part itself, with the bolt hole on the engine before you go into far. I was going to give it that little spin before I go in any further. Now that we shook that around side to side, wiggled it back and forth a little bit, and got it to go all the way in so it's up against the engine block the way it needs to be, we're going to go ahead and put our bolt in. I'm just going to start it right on the socket with my extension because it's easiest for me to get my hand in there and then we'll start it in and snug it right up.
That's pretty much bottomed out. It's going to give it just a teeny bit more. That's good. Get our tool off of there. Let's go ahead and get that sensor back on. I'm just going to line it up and then I'll press it in with my pry bar or something that reaches here. Make sure it's completely latched in and it's not loose in any way. So I can get the starter back lined up with where it needs to be. Start in our two bolts. Snug these up. Let's go ahead and torque these to 37 foot-pounds. Just take a quick peek around, make sure we didn't accidentally disconnect anything such as, maybe, a sensor of some sort.
If everything looks good, let's get back up top and reconnect that negative battery terminal. All right. So that was a lot of fun. Now let's get back up here and get this negative battery terminal back on. Make sure it's nice and tight. Give it a nice wiggle. That feels great. After this, what you would want to do is start up the vehicle, let it run for a little while, and make sure that the check engine light does not come on.
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Keep in mind when you're done this repair, you're gonna have to do a crank variation relearn procedure that you're gonna need a higher end scan tool to do the job. Now, disconnect the battery. Use an eight-millimeter wrench. Disconnect the negative side and slide that out of the way.
Now, we're gonna take the starter out. Use a 10-millimeter socket to remove this bolt right here that holds this cover on. Just take that out and we're gonna take these two starter bolts out. Use a 13-millimeter socket. I'm gonna slide the starter back and just try to take this cover out of the way and disconnect the oil level sensor. I'm just gonna use a pick, just get under or the lock and just slide that off. Just grab the starter and just tip it down. You can disconnect this shield on top. Slide that off and out of the way.
Now, we need to disconnect these two wires that connect to the starter. The top one, you're gonna use an eight-millimeter wrench and just take the nut off. You can't really do the, you can't really see what you're doing, you're doing it blind. Just loosen it up and take this nut off. And slide the wire off and out of the way. And then the other one, we're gonna use a 13-millimeter wrench, the same thing. Loosen this up and take that nut off and then slide the cable out. There might be a washer and disconnect the connector to the crank sensor. Just slide that off and take a 10-millimeter socket. Take this bolt out.
Now, just grab the sensor and you can try to wiggle it right out or take a screwdriver or a pry bar, pry it out. And just pry it out. And there it is. And just clean out that area in the block. You might wanna take a small wire brush. Just try not to get any of the filings into the block and use a rag, a little brake parts cleaner, clean that up and just take the new sensor. You can put a little grease on the O-ring or some engine oil and slide that in position. Just twist it back and forth. Make sure it goes all the way it down. Put the bolt in and I'm gonna torque that bolt to 18-foot pounds.
And take the wiring harness and connect the connector. Lock it down. Now, we're gonna put the starter back in. You wanna make sure you take that big positive cable and that's gonna hook on this stud, not this one, that's the ground. And then the remote or the signal wire or the on switch, wire's gonna go right there. So line this back, and again, this is gonna be kind of hard. You can't really see anything. And there is a tab, I'm gonna line that tab up.
Then take the lock washer and the nut. Put those over the stud. Then we're gonna tighten this down. And if you can get a torque wrench in there, you wanna torque that to 80-inch pounds, make sure you're on inch-pounds, not foot-pounds. That's good. Now, take the smaller signal wire and get that on that stud. And if you had a small lock washer, put that on first and then the small nut. And tighten that down and then tighten that nut down. And you wanna tighten that to 30-inch pounds. Make sure you're not on foot pounds. And line this back.
As you slide this starter back, put this cover into position. And get this lined up. Take the two starter bolts. Get those started and tighten these two bolts to 37-foot pounds. Now, put this bolt in for this cover and tighten it down. Just snug it up. And the oil level sensor right here, line the connector up, lock it down. Now, if you still had the starter down, it might be a little easier to put this shield on, but if you wanna do it after also, you can slide this oil over. And that's all the way on there. So that's good.
And at this point, you're gonna do the crank shaft variation, relearn procedure on the scan tool. Now, the scan tools might be a little bit different. So follow the directions on the scan tool. Most of the time, what the tool is gonna have you do is put the parking brake on, run the engine to operating temperature, step on the parking brake and then sidestep the gas pedal, so you're gonna floor the gas pedal all the way down to wide open throttle and then sidestep it. It'll tell you when to turn it off and that's gonna synchronize the engine to the computer.
